Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Now Don't Go Throwing Logic At Us!

Public policy always has determined spending, class size, subject
matter and teacher qualifications. People notice it more now because
there’s “substantial dissatisfaction with how schools are doing and with
the effects of these older rules and regs.”

If you were an elected official and were responsible for
elementary schools where only half of kids are reading at grade level
and high schools where only fifty percent of students are graduating,
it’d be pretty understandable (and laudable, even) to think you can’t
simply trust the educators to do the right thing.

If you think educators should run public schools as they see fit, you
have to believe that generals should set national security policy,
police should write criminal law, doctors and pharmaceutical companies
make health policy and bankers to regulate banking, Hess concludes.